Our Betters, the Glossary
Our Betters is a 1933 American pre-Code satirical comedy film directed by George Cukor and starring Constance Bennett, Anita Louise and Gilbert Roland.[1]
Table of Contents
39 relations: Alan Mowbray, Anita Louise, Aristocracy, Art director, Bernhard Kaun, Charles Rosher, Charles Starrett, Cinematography, Comedy film, Constance Bennett, David O. Selznick, Elsa Maxwell, George Cukor, Gilbert Roland, Gossip columnist, Grant Mitchell (actor), Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Hattie Carnegie, Hugh Sinclair (actor), Jack Kitchin, Jane Murfin, May Beatty, Minor Watson, Mordaunt Hall, New York City, Our Betters (play), Phoebe Foster, Pre-Code Hollywood, Radio City Music Hall, RKO Pictures, Roy Webb, Tango, The New York Times, Tommy Atkins (director), Tyrell Davis, Upper class, Van Nest Polglase, Violet Kemble-Cooper, W. Somerset Maugham.
- 1930s satirical films
- Films based on works by W. Somerset Maugham
- Films produced by David O. Selznick
- Films with screenplays by Jane Murfin
Alan Mowbray
Alan Mowbray MM (born Alfred Ernest Allen; 18 August 1896 – 25 March 1969) was an English stage and film actor who found success in Hollywood.
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Anita Louise
Anita Louise (born Anita Louise Fremault; January 9, 1915 – April 25, 1970) was an American film and television actress best known for her performances in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935), Anthony Adverse (1936), Marie Antoinette (1938), and The Little Princess (1939).
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Aristocracy
Aristocracy is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats.
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Art director
Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film and television, the Internet, and video games.
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Bernhard Kaun
Bernhard Kaun (5 April 1899 – 3 January 1980) was an American composer and orchestrator.
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Charles Rosher
Charles G. Rosher, A.S.C. (17 November 1885 – 15 January 1974) was an English-born cinematographer who worked from the early days of silent films through the 1950s.
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Charles Starrett
Charles Robert Starrett (March 28, 1903 – March 22, 1986) was an American actor, best known for his starring role in the Durango Kid westerns.
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Cinematography
Cinematography is the art of motion picture (and more recently, electronic video camera) photography.
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Comedy film
Comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor.
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Constance Bennett
Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 – July 24, 1965) was an American stage, film, radio, and television actress and producer.
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David O. Selznick
David O. Selznick (born David Selznick: May 10, 1902June 22, 1965) was an American film producer, screenwriter and film studio executive who produced Gone with the Wind (1939) and Rebecca (1940), both of which earned him an Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Elsa Maxwell
Elsa Maxwell (May 24, 1883 – November 1, 1963) was an American gossip columnist and author, songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality and professional hostess renowned for her parties for royalty and high society figures of her day.
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George Cukor
George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director and producer.
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Gilbert Roland
Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso (December 11, 1905 – May 15, 1994), known professionally as Gilbert Roland, was a Mexican-born American film and television actor whose career spanned seven decades from the 1920s until the 1980s.
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Gossip columnist
A gossip columnist is someone who writes a gossip column in a newspaper or magazine, especially in a gossip magazine.
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Grant Mitchell (actor)
John Grant Mitchell Jr. (June 17, 1874 – May 1, 1957) was an American actor.
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Harry Wagstaff Gribble
Harry Wagstaff Gribble (March 27, 1896 – January 28, 1981) was an English-American author, stage director, screenwriter and playwright.
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Hattie Carnegie
Hattie Carnegie (March 15, 1886 – February 22, 1956) was a fashion entrepreneur based in New York City from the 1920s to the 1950s.
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Hugh Sinclair (actor)
Hugh Sinclair (19 May 1903 – 29 December 1962) was a British actor.
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Jack Kitchin
Jack Kitchin (1901–1983) was a British film editor and producer.
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Jane Murfin
Jane Murfin, née Macklem (October 27, 1884 – August 10, 1955) was an American playwright and screenwriter.
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May Beatty
May Beatty (4 June 1880–1 April 1945) was a New Zealand singer and stage and screen actress.
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Minor Watson
Minor Watson (December 22, 1889 – July 28, 1965) was a prominent character actor.
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Mordaunt Hall
Mordaunt Hall (1 November 1878 – 2 July 1973) was the first regularly assigned motion picture critic for The New York Times, working from October 1924 to September 1934.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Our Betters (play)
Our Betters is a comedy play by the British writer Somerset Maugham.
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Phoebe Foster
Phoebe Foster (born Angeline Egar; July 9, 1896 – June 1975) was an American theater and film actress.
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Pre-Code Hollywood
Pre-Code Hollywood was an era in the American film industry that occurred between the widespread adoption of sound in film in the late 1920s and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines (popularly known as the Hays Code) in 1934.
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Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall (also known as Radio City) is an entertainment venue and theater at 1260 Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.
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RKO Pictures
RKO Radio Pictures Inc., commonly known as RKO Pictures or simply RKO, was an American film production and distribution company, one of the "Big Five" film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. Our Betters and RKO Pictures are RKO Pictures films.
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Roy Webb
Royden Denslow Webb (October 3, 1888 – December 10, 1982) was an American film music composer.
Tango
Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay.
The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Tommy Atkins (director)
Tommy Atkins (July 18, 1887 –June 18, 1968) was an American director of the silent and early sound film eras.
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Tyrell Davis
Tyrell Davis (1902–1970) was a British film actor, Cambridge educated, who appeared on the West End and Broadway stage, as well as in British and American films.
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Upper class
Upper class in modern societies is the social class composed of people who hold the highest social status, usually are the wealthiest members of class society, and wield the greatest political power.
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Van Nest Polglase
Van Nest Polglase (August 25, 1898 – December 20, 1968) was an American art director.
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Violet Kemble-Cooper
Violet Kemble-Cooper (12 December 1886 – 17 August 1961) was an English-American actress who appeared on stage and in Hollywood film.
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W. Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories.
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See also
1930s satirical films
Films based on works by W. Somerset Maugham
- Adorable Julia
- Another Dawn (1937 film)
- Being Julia
- Charming Sinners
- Christmas Holiday
- Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A.
- East of Suez (film)
- Encore (1951 film)
- Miss Sadie Thompson
- Of Human Bondage (1934 film)
- Of Human Bondage (1946 film)
- Of Human Bondage (1964 film)
- Our Betters
- Quartet (1948 film)
- Rain (1932 film)
- Sadie Thompson (film)
- Secret Agent (1936 film)
- Smith (1917 film)
- Strictly Unconventional
- The Beachcomber (1954 film)
- The Circle (1925 film)
- The Hour Before the Dawn
- The Letter (1929 film)
- The Letter (1940 film)
- The Magician (1926 film)
- The Moon and Sixpence (1942 film)
- The Moon and Sixpence (1959 film)
- The Narrow Corner (film)
- The Painted Veil (1934 film)
- The Painted Veil (2006 film)
- The Razor's Edge (1946 film)
- The Razor's Edge (1984 film)
- The Right to Live (1935 film)
- The Sacred Flame (1929 film)
- The Sacred Flame (1931 film)
- The Seventh Sin
- The Unfaithful (1947 film)
- Three for the Show
- Too Many Husbands
- Trio (1950 film)
- Up at the Villa (film)
- Vessel of Wrath
Films produced by David O. Selznick
- A Bill of Divorcement (1932 film)
- A Farewell to Arms (1957 film)
- A Tale of Two Cities (1935 film)
- Anna Karenina (1935 film)
- Bird of Paradise (1932 film)
- Chinatown Nights (1929 film)
- Christopher Strong
- Dancing Lady
- David Copperfield (1935 film)
- Dinner at Eight (1933 film)
- Duel in the Sun (film)
- Forgotten Faces (1928 film)
- Gone with the Wind (film)
- Intermezzo (1939 film)
- King Kong (1933 film)
- Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936 film)
- Made for Each Other (1939 film)
- Manhattan Melodrama
- Meet the Baron
- Nothing Sacred (film)
- Our Betters
- Portrait of Jennie
- Rebecca (1940 film)
- Reckless (1935 film)
- Rockabye (1932 film)
- Since You Went Away
- Spellbound (1945 film)
- Street of Chance (1930 film)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938 film)
- The Animal Kingdom (1932 film)
- The Cheyenne Kid
- The Garden of Allah (1936 film)
- The Paradine Case
- The Prisoner of Zenda (1937 film)
- The Sport Parade
- The Third Man
- The Young in Heart
- Topaze (1933 American film)
- What Price Hollywood?
Films with screenplays by Jane Murfin
- A Slave of Fashion
- After Tonight
- Alice Adams (1935 film)
- Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
- Ann Vickers (film)
- Come and Get It (1936 film)
- Dance Hall (1929 film)
- Double Harness
- Dragon Seed (film)
- Flight for Freedom
- Friends and Lovers (1931 film)
- Half Marriage (film)
- I'll Take Romance (film)
- Lawful Larceny (1930 film)
- Leathernecking
- Meet the Prince
- Our Betters
- Pride and Prejudice (1940 film)
- Roberta (1935 film)
- Rockabye (1932 film)
- Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929 film)
- Side Street (1929 film)
- Spitfire (1934 film)
- Stand Up and Fight (film)
- Street Girl
- That Girl from Paris
- The Amateur Wife
- The Crime Doctor (1934 film)
- The Fountain (1934 film)
- The Little Minister (1934 film)
- The Notorious Lady
- The Pay-Off (1930 film)
- The Prince of Headwaiters
- The Runaway Bride (film)
- The Savage (1926 film)
- The Shining Hour
- The Silver Cord (film)
- The Women (1939 film)
- Too Many Cooks (film)
- Way Back Home (1931 film)
- What Price Hollywood?
- White Shoulders
- Young Bride